8 sentences with 'minister'
Example sentences and phrases with the word minister and other words derived from it.
• « As he explained it to the Reverend Samuel Marquis, minister of his local temple: "There are thousands of men out there in the workshops who do not live as they should. If they are given a decent wage, they will lead a decent life ... and they will be content to live that way. What they need is the opportunity to live better." »
• « At that time, the Chinese emperor Fu Xi ordered his minister Yi Kang to create a great dance for people to exercise joyfully and thus ward off any kind of illness. »
• « However, he never seemed to have very strong political views, despite the fact that his father was for many years a minister of labor. »
• « Papandreou was already prime minister, and Greece was becoming the most intransigent member in both NATO and the European Economic Community. »
• « Under the leadership of its astute royal minister, Cardinal Richelieu, France worked to keep its Habsburg rivals in check despite the shared Catholicism of the French and Habsburg states. »
• « Although Marie de' Medici eventually stepped down as regent, Richelieu joined the king as his chief minister in 1628 and continued to play the key role in shaping the French state. »
• « His son Charles XII (r. 1697 - 1718) was so arrogant that he snatched the crown from the hand of the Lutheran minister at his own coronation and placed it on his head; he also refused to take the normal coronation oath. He was the true paragon of Swedish absolutism. »